Originally taken with Nikon F3HP + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 ai hand held + Vivitar circular macroflash.
Both are Ektachrome EPP ISO 100 from October 1996, campus University of São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
Both digital dupes: D610 @ ISO 100 + 32mm tube + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 ai @f/5.6 + ES1 slide copying adapter. Some cropping.
bruni wrote:
Reagan - I just need to get the lie of the land.
The XT-2 is your main camera? So you've no objection to other brand cameras.
But you wouldn't put a nikon lens on the Fuji?
And the reason is because.........that would be 'lens gendering'?
Have I got that right?
I will go with that for right now
Don't say anything but the real reason is because I don't have an adapter
Colin and Kristian, thanks for the positive comments on the mimosa blossom. I almost didn't post it because it was literally wilting and moving during the various shots—long exposures without flash, just a single LED lamp.
bobbelbob wrote:
Here´s one more from Gili, fresh out of LR 30 shot standing pano (36 from the start, a bit cropped...) Still i did´nt manage to fix the horizon curvature. I´ll have to do some research. I thought it got pretty cool anyways
In LR I take one of the images in a selected pano series, do some basic editing to it and then apply lens correction before using the 'sync' feature to apply the same commands to all images. I do this before creating the pano using one of the 3 options avaialble in LR. The results vary between the 3. Sometimes only one works for me - particularly with fisheye panos.
If that doesn't give me nice results then I use Microsoft's ICE program. Standalone and free. There are lots more perspective option control in ICE than in LR's pano tool. I output a jpg from ICE and load in into LR for further processing.
bruni wrote:
Kristian - love the Bali shots. That pano is awesome, don't know how you do it. The scarecrow seemed a bit shabby, hard to believe that works. I thought you had to make more of an effort to have it look like a person.
Peter - love that first racing pic.
ben
Thanks Ben. The pano is done with the panorama tool in LR + now I´ll try to add what Colin said. Perhaps the scarecrow scares more people than birds. I think though, that the style of it also has to do with scaring away spirits and such entities People on Bali are very religious and very spiritual.
leighton w wrote:
Nice set, even though it's on the Sony.
Is the little outdoor cafe still in your way?
yes it is - that's why I had to take those pics from right in front of the fountain - the 16mm view s deceptive, I was virtually in the fountain even though it looks like I was standing well back. And just as well the Sony has a silent shutter because I was standing way too close to the woman taking the pic - the building behind the fountain is a police station and if she saw me standing that close I think that's where I might have ended up.
In LR I take one of the images in a selected pano series, do some basic editing to it and then apply lens correction before using the 'sync' feature to apply the same commands to all images. I do this before creating the pano using one of the 3 options avaialble in LR. The results vary between the 3. Sometimes only one works for me - particularly with fisheye panos.
If that doesn't give me nice results then I use Microsoft's ICE program. Standalone and free. There are lots more perspective option control in ICE than in LR's pano tool. I output a jpg from ICE and load in into LR for further processing.
After searching for a week, I finally tripped over part of my local falcon brood. I heard the familiar screech but needed another 10 minutes with binoculars to find a bird. Then had to rush for gear from my studio a block away. I was lucky to have my subject stay put for this length of time, and a good storyline unfolded.
Several technical problems prevented the best imagery. Light was failing by the minute, causing motion blur as shutter speeds dropped and changing the color balance. I was afraid the birds would fly at any moment, so my support was hurriedly erected, imbalanced and sitting on slippery grit. I also struggled to keep critical focus as the birds moved around the ledge. AF has its uses.
Gear: D500, Nikkor 800/8 AI-S wide open, Gitzo 4, Wimberley WH-200 II. Falcon coverage was the precise rationale for this rig, giving me effective reach of 1200mm.
Above shot is a crop, and shows Mom with a fresh kill. In the next set below, frames 1 & 2 shows Mom dragging the pigeon along the ledge, leaving a trail of diced goodies. Frame 3 is Mom calling for Junior. She flew off at this point, and I waited for five minutes. I was packing the camera when Junior suddenly flew in for the feast, and started eating in frame 4. The foreground blur in frame 4 is Mom keeping watch from the air:
The next frames show Junior stuffing his face. As a 6-week old fledging, he is not yet able to hunt, so the parents will stash food around town at high altitude and then ring the dinner bell:
Dusk is feeding time for peregrines, so I don't get the ideal ambient light. In the next set, Mom actually lands on the ledge in frame 2, making sure Junior has eaten his vegetables. In frame 3, Junior downs an entire pigeon foot! Junior departs in frame 4.
Mom snacks briefly on leftovers, then departs:
Finally, here's the wide-angle view of the shooting situation. Action was on a ledge above the 6th floor, and I was camped on the other side of the street. While I can't hope for such a lively moment again, I do expect to find the peregrines with better light. A relaxed shooting pace should also improve my pixel quality.
Another set from Ubud on Bali. We stayed outside of Ubud on a resort amongst the rice many rice paddies. Such tranquility we had out there. But there was noise, really really loud noise during night time. Geckos, lizards, snakes, frogs, grasshoppers, cikadas, rats, squirrels and birds in all shapes and sizes and at some point of the night the rats and the squirrels met up and had a good old fight on our bungalow roof....There is so much life on the paddies, I think all of it is one huge living organism, it was like staying in the middle of the rainforest, really cool, but sometimes it was a bit hard to sleep Unfortunately lot of those animals were hard to catch on camera since most of them are nocturnal.
Not our bungalow, but the rice farmers stayed there, don´t know if it was permanentely or just temporary - Leighton lens Rice Field Shack by Kristian Hagelin, on Flickr
On of the many creatures living around us - Leighton lens Lizard by Kristian Hagelin, on Flickr
bruni wrote:
Steve - I'm a cyclist and I'd happily spend a holiday riding around Burgundy, or Tuscany - but I'd be doing it for the food and wine, no way I'd get into the lycra and climb the alps. Were they French?
ben
Glad to hear you keep fit the best way possible Ben ....
Don't understand your dislike of lycra ..... but each to his own !!
The group at the Lauteret were German I believe .....
bruni wrote:
Reagan - I won't say anything - but at least I get it now.....well, sort of.
the fountain pics are the 16mm f3.5 fisheye, but the lonely lunch pic is the 105mm f2.5 ais - all 'lens gendered' on the A7RII
ben
Ben I am not fan of the rendering of the first two but the following two are out of this world.
Love the special mood of the fountain not to mention the guy walking to the unoccupied table with the ray of light... outstanding street work.
Lieutenant Z wrote:
Ben I am not fan of the rendering of the first two but the following two are out of this world.
Love the special mood of the fountain not to mention the guy walking to the unoccupied table with the ray of light... outstanding street work.
That's interesting - yes, on the first two I was playing with a cross process preset which produces produces those extremes - dark blacks and high contrast, which look nothing like the original pic. It's not for everyone. I thought you'd flame me for posting more of these endless fountain pics.
And the cyclists were "German without a doubt" ? - ha ha - how could you have known that? I was sure Steve was going to say American.
Definitely no American spoken guys ..... there was no hint of any derivation of English in their calls back and forth !!
The only mistake I could have made was that of Dutch, but their calls were much more Germanic than the softer Dutch language. Though amongst the laughter and general giddiness going on I may have got it wrong, but I think not.
The route they went required at least 24kms of uphill whichever direction they came from. If from Briancon then the shorter but perhaps steeper route. If from Bourg d'Oisans then still uphill but probably about 30kms of going up, but not so steep. Nice route whichever way. I don't think they came over the Galibier because I was there for quite a time before going down to the Lauteret where these folks were at. Didn't see them at the Galibier.
25 years ago I would have tried to ride the mountains myself. 20 years ago I rode the Mont Ventoux (in lycra) and burned my brakes out on the descent. (cork brake blocks, on Corima carbon four-spoke wheels - now that was hairy)
People on Bali are very religious and very spiritual.
Unfortunately lot of those animals were hard to catch on camera since most of them are nocturnal. 
